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ROGER ALEXANDER. Editor
City Editor. Ron Gatehouse: Copy Editor. Mike Moyle: Sports Asst. Bus. Mgr.. Deanna Softie; Local Adv. Mgr.. Arnold
Editor. Fran Fanucci: Editorial Director. Ted Serrill; Makeup Hoffman: National Adv. Mgr.. Janice Anderson; Co-Cir-
Editor and Personnel Director. Sue Conklin; Assistant City rotation Mgrs.. Ann Caton, David Poses; Promotion Mgr.,
Editor. Ed Dobbs; Assistant Copy Editor. Nancy Showalter; Arthur Brener: Personnel Mgr.. Jo Fulton; Office Mgr.,
Assistant Sports Editor. Vince t'arocri: Photography Editor. Harry Yaverbaum: „Claysified Adv. Mgr.. Barbara Shipman;
Dave Barer: Exchange Editor. Reeky- Zahm; Librarian, Secretary, Roth Howland; Research and Records Mgr, Jane
Eirie Onsa. Groff.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Larry Jacobson; Copy Editors, Joe Boehret, Pat Evans; Assist
ants, Jim Kopp, Toni Werner, Chuck Dißocco, Pau la Miller, Hannah Yashan, Ruth Billig, Thom Shiels.
Put the Cork in the
Not a year haS gone by since Spring Week
was first instituted at the University" that a
small number of irresponsible students don't
spoil the festivities by bringing alcohol into the
picture.
We were not disappointed in this respect this
year. Two groups participating in the carnival
Tuesday were charged with having alcoholic
beverages on their booth premises.
In the few short years since its inception,
Spring Week has become one of the outstand
ing social events at Penn State. It entails weeks
of careful planning, rehearsing, construction,
and hard work on the part of the fraternities,
sororities, and 'independent groups that par
ticipate in the affair. Their combined efforts
produce a show that is unrivaled among other
colleges and universities.
And now that Spring Week has found an,
accepted place on the campus, a few students
insist on endangering the entire program by
allowing drinking to creep into the carnival.
Students at the University do not know how
lucky they are when it comes to enjoying social
life. They have come to accept Spring Week
as a yearly must on their social calendar without
realizing that many colleges and universities
forbid such social affairs as carnivals on grounds
far more trivial than drinking.
It seems a shame that this minority of stu-
Come Back Nittany Lions
Every college campus from the largest to the
smallest has a statue or two set among its ivy
covered buildings to commemorate some tra
ditional part of the institution.
Here at Penn Stale, the only shrine on cam
pus is that of our famed Nittany Lion.
There is no reason why the campus should
be limited to just one statue of our mascot. In
fact, the University was in possession of four
different statues of the Nittany Lion which
could have been placed around the campus as
shrines.
Ma and Pa, the original stone statues of the
Nittany Lion were long a cherished symbol to
returning alumni. These twin statues stood atop
the pillars at the main entrance to the Univer
sity on College avenue.
When a new entrance was constructed in 1916,
the statues were taken down and supposedly
stored away in a safe place until a proper shrine
could be built to house them.
Within a year, the famed statues wound up
on the University garbage heap.
Again in 1930, the University muffed another
chance to add, free of charge, to its statuary
collection. At that time, a second pair of lion
statues were placed on top of the pillars of
An Aroused Public
The findings of the board of inquiry investi
gating the drowning of six marines at Parris
Island, S.C., and the promise of reform by the
Marine Corps Commandant come as welcome
news to an aroused and concerned American
Public.
Under pressure from their elected representa
tives, particularly the House Armed Services
Committee, the corps appears to have made an
honest and thorough investigation of the deaths,
although that investigation was conducted in
secret.
Gen. Randolph M. Pate, Marine Corps com
mandant, has promised a complete overhaul of
policy, including sweeping revisions of recruit
training programs. As a first step in this pro
gram. Maj. Gen. David M. Shoup has bpen ap
pointed to the new post of inspector general
in charge of Marine Corps recruit training.
If Pate's program is carried out with forth
rightness and sincerity, as we trust it will be.
there should be no further "death marches."
The lona chain of occurences involving abuse
of authority, which Pate told the House com
mittee did exist, will be broken.
On April 12 The Daily Collegian observed:
•'But the Marines—and the United States
government—cannot escape blame for the trag
edy. They allowed McKeon to gain a position
of responsibility in which he could., without
asking, march his boys to their deaths."
Gen. Pate confirmed this judgment when he
admitted that the corps has been lax in super
vising drill instructors. "Some practices.' he
confessed. "have crept into the handling of
recruits which are not only unnecessary but do
riot comport with the dignity of the individual
or his self-respect."
The real tragedy of the six dead Marines is
that they had to die to bring about reforms
which never should have become necessary.
No words or actions now can bring them back.
But their deaths may have saved other lives
from future tragedies through the reforms that
came too late to save their own.
—Bob Franklin
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVID RICHARDS, Business Manager
Spring Week Bottle
dents endanger the status of Spring Week by
continuing to disregard University drinking
regulations. They fail to realize that by their
actions the carnival, and even Spring Week,
may be brought to a quick end. .
The group caught with alcoholic beverages
in its booth was not the only guilty party. A
glance into the parking lots that surround the
area would have disclosed many more persons
"fortifying themselves for the night's work."
The fact that one group was later exonerated
on the grounds that the bottles of beer used
in their show were pre-emptied before the
carnival started does not detract from their
guilt. There is no excusable reason at all for
alcohol to take any part in the carnival,
It is unfortunate that all the membei . s of the
guilty group must bear the punishment for the
actions of a few. Most of the - participants in the
show had no knowledge that drinking was
going on, and other shows where drinking was
going on got away without any detection at all.
The University should not have to guard the
morals of students at such social affairs, but
if immature students can't keep the alcohol out
of Spring Week, it may be found necessary to
put the cork in the bottle and do away entirely
with Spring Week,
the present gateway. These bronze monuments
were removed from the pillars after three weeks
and also•stored "until a suitable place could be
found for them."
The suitable place, in this case...was the scrap
pile of the Titan Metal Company in Bellefonte.
These symbols of Penn State's rise to fame
did not go the way of their predecessors how
ever. A local merchant, 0. W. Houts, found
them before they were melted down, and pur
chased them as a keepsake of the University.
For years the bengels guarded the entrance
to his store, surviving the elements, and even
a fire which destroyed the store last year.
It is time these monuments of our University
were rescued from their dreary duties of guard
ing household wares, furniture, and lumber.
and restored to the campus that was once proud
to display them.
The University has been offered—of all things
—a ships bell for the courtyard in front of the
Hetzel Union building. Surely, these Nittany
Lions would be a more fitting rememberance
to the past years of the University, and, at the
same time, add a more colorful touch to the
HUB courtyard than a cast iron ship's bell.
Let's bring the lions back to the campus.
—The Editor
Safety Valve
More Rock and Roll
TO THE EDITOR: Why don't you rock and roll
protesters get serious? Isn't it a small minority
of Penn State fans who oppose it? If you ob
jectionists are so set against rock and roll music
why do you listen to it? You certainly aren't
going to decrease its popularity any by calling
this music "stuff," "junk," or any other childish
term.
Why try to oppose something that has climbed
to the top of the hit parade, has become so
popular that disk-jockey and music programs
all over have had to meet the demand and now
include it as part of their regular program
whether they approve of it or not? Even Steve
Fishbein has had to give in and play it as part
of his nighttime show because of the great de
mand for IL
If you don't like classical music or hillbilly
music do you go around fussing and fuming to
everybody because you hear it on the radio?
You do not! So why make a "federal case" out
of r-and-b and r-and-r music? Live and let live
is a good policy for you and your minority to
follow. Certainly nobody is forcing you to lis
ten to it, are they?
If the majority of Penn Staters gain some
pleasure out of listening to rock and roll music
why down it? I myself am not a pusher of this
type of music and can take or leave it. but I
don't try to deprive others of any enjoyment
that they may get from it.
Gazette
Today
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University Hospital
Noel Deeareleante. George Goldstein. Irving Heiklen,
Alan Jones. John Kersh. Philip Eitow, Ruth Nissen, Walter
Wysoczanoki. Ernest Young.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of th• writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper. the student
body. or the University.
—The Editor
—Barron H. Bohnet
ittle Man on Campus
"Speaking of minor leaguers, look who
discovered the steam pipe system."
pebbles on the shore
Flip, Shake—Tilt
Have you ever watched a pinball fanatic in action? Have
you ever observed open-mouthed how his muscles tense, his
head glides forward and shoulders hunch, how his whole
sense of concentration is pinned on one tiny ball as he pits
himself against the machine in his constant search for that
most elusive of prizes—the free game?
No? Well, here is your chance
to learn about that frustrating
and often futile life of the men
who think of money in terms of
nickles, and sometimes dimes, and
whose only idea of adventure is
the racking up of free games.
Picture a typical pinball ma
chine backed up against a grimy
wall in a restaurant, bar, or drug
store. In the midst of these drab
surroundings, the colored nanls
and lights of the
machine hit the
eye and hold it
in a semi-trance.
What is this
thing, dead now
with its pretty
green tilt sign
blaring, but lia-
ble any moment,
you think, to
flash into life
with a sputter of
clicks, claps, and
tinkles b 1 a z ing •
with light and
half-perceived inhuman hostility
Enter the protagonists, their
fists full of nickles, their shirt
sleeves rolled up, their cigarette
packs within reach. They are the
experts, the college youth who af
ter years of experience and loss
of nickles, has mastered The
Touch.
They brought handfuls of
nickles to gorge the hungry
machine but they are confident
only a few coins will be needed.
This machine is a new one. One
of The rarities of the- pinball
playing world is the discovery
of a machine that is new to the
masters, a machine whose bum
pers, flippers, gates, and holes
are arranged in a fashion dif
ferent from any other known
machines.
The mastering of a new ma
chine is as exciting and as in
triguing as climbing a new moun
tain or choking an 18-foot python
to death. So our fanatics were
confident they could learn all the
secrets of winning in a short time,
and when winning, who needs
money?
Of course the supreme goal is
to hit the limits—to win as much
as the machine will allow. It is
always fun to try and guess how
many games you could run up be
fore-reaching this point where all
the high scores and "hitting" spe
cials you muster won't win you
another game.
The limit is often 26 gamei
and if after an hour and a half
FRIDAY: MAY 4. 1956
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of play it hasn't been reached,
you might as well quit the_
game. 'man, you've lost The
Touch. Hang your head when -
you leave: the machine has
mastered man.
A nickle is harshly jabbed into
the slot and the first game is
underway.
Push the ball into place ... pull
back the plunger and send the
ball into the maze of flashing
lights and discordant pops and
clicks' . . . keep the play at the
top . . . bounce the ball on and
off the bumpers , . . build up that
score . ._. push that machine . . .
shake that machine . . . careful,
don't tilt it ... plop, goes the ball
into the 500,000 hole . ..
A typical ball, one of many
—five balls to a game. Play a
game and win another. Play a
game and lose it. On and on.
Hour after hour they pound
the machine, spending not a
nickle now. Time flies fast and
the bluebooks they have tomor
row are doomed to be flunked.
- Here are the experts at work,
not thinking of the flying time.
of the countless smokes and cups
of coffee, of the annoyed couple
in the booth down the aisle. And
here are the techniques, the tricks
of hand and - eye that make each
game different, the tricks that
when continually applied-to The
Game invoke a blurry trance—
the mark of a pinball player.
Measure exactly the f orce
needed to send the ball- into the
game . . . make it end up on the
right bumper so it makes the cor
rect bounce and gets you the most
score.
When flipping, time the flip
to the split second so the ball
is sent flying back to the top
. . aim it at the target, just
pile up that score.
Any pinball player will tell you
that while a good, eye and sound
reflexes.are neded to flip or aim
the ball you can't win a game
on just that alone. That is why
they make machines light enough
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